Wow. This is an app just waiting to be built. I would definitely subscribe to a service like this. And I would happily give money to a nonprofit who provides this as a free service for women in tech. Developers, start your IDEs!
Why not men too?
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#12"Many women gamers and developers, as well as those who support them, have lately come under attack from online trolls" Please don't whitewash the GamerGaters who have also experienced such attacks. (For example, one was "doxed" and mailed a knife with a suggestion to kill himself - which I'd argue a far worse "attack" than any online threats. The anti-GamerGate media of course doesn't report on this.)
What about a source for that?
https://twitter.com/kingofpol/status/525755692318457856
Keywords "gamergate knife".
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#13"Many women gamers and developers, as well as those who support them, have lately come under attack from online trolls" Please don't whitewash the GamerGaters who have also experienced such attacks. (For example, one was "doxed" and mailed a knife with a suggestion to kill himself - which I'd argue a far worse "attack" than any online threats. The anti-GamerGate media of course doesn't report on this.)
I will optimistically assume I am being downvoted for off-topic rather than further whitewashed.
I don't know what "whitewashed" means in this context, but you are definitely off topic and your comment reads like you are trying to justify some pretty terrible actions. The fact that other bad things happen to other people in no way excuses the bad things that happened to female game developers.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will optimistically assume I am being downvoted for off-topic rather than further whitewashed.
I don't know what "whitewashed" means in this context, but you are definitely off topic and your comment reads like you are trying to justify some pretty terrible actions. The fact that other bad things happen to other people in no way excuses the bad things that happened to female game developers.
It's the bias in the media. GamerGate supporters are painted uniformly as misogynists. There is a legitimate argument about press ethics, freedom of speech, and whether appreciating an attractive body is the same as objectification.
>justify some pretty terrible actions
I'm asking that the terrible actions of BOTH sides are reported. There is an awful, hateful minority on both sides, but in the mainstream media, only the terrible actions of the GamerGate side is reported.
(And there is surely legitimate argument on both sides, too.)
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#16"Many women gamers and developers, as well as those who support them, have lately come under attack from online trolls" Please don't whitewash the GamerGaters who have also experienced such attacks. (For example, one was "doxed" and mailed a knife with a suggestion to kill himself - which I'd argue a far worse "attack" than any online threats. The anti-GamerGate media of course doesn't report on this.)
Where in that sentence are "GamerGaters" excluded?
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#18The US really needs something akin to the EU's Data Protection Directive[0].
I've seen tons of businesses hide some tiny clause in their T&Cs (page 30, subsection 15, paragraph 11, etc) which allows them to resell your data to whoever will pay. For example the National Geographic Store sold my personal data when I purchased something from them (even with no check-box opt out, etc during checkout), and I've been receiving girly catalogues and credit card applicaton snail mail ever since (with a glaring typo which points right to National Geo's store).
I don't really see that happening (the US getting better data protections) as the US constitution is being largely used to protect business's "freedom [to do whatever the hell they want]" rather than individuals/people as was intended.
I was really hopeful that when the blackmail criminal-record racket started that that might finally result in substantial changes within the US, but nope. Nothing has changed and the blackmailers still operate.
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#19The Internet never forgets. No app is going to change that because Internet is de-centralized and de-centralization makes it impossible to know if the data was really completely removed or not.
Let's face it: the only way to not expose your personal info is to not share it in the first place (forget silly Facebook, G+, Instagrams and all that stuff). If you've already done that, make sure that whatever you are doing that might lead to doxxing is done with your other identity (although this is hardly fool proof since linking identities can happen in many unexpected places). Worst of all is that that kind of infomation, once it slips, is impossible to contain and you have to cut ties and start over.
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